CY17/22 F-35 delivery
17 66 (38 on time / 28 late)
18 91 (53 on time / 38 late)
19 134 (117 on time / 17 late)
20 120 (70 on time/50 late)
21 142 (120 on time / 22 late)
22 151 (76 on time/75 late)
05-06-2023
The 310th Fighter Squadron is back and now the fifth F-35 training squadron at Luke AFB!
Lt Col Adam Vogel assumed command on Friday and completed the first flight today
sdamico wrote: ↑09 Jun 2023, 08:35
Another delivery flight as GOLD01 (KC-10A 85-0033 60AMW) departed KAFW eastbound c. 0418Z 6/9/23 (c. 2318L 6/8/23)
to Moron.
SD
Dragging F-16’s from the 301 FW. Not related to F-35’s.
Pentagon will not accept new F-35s with TR-3 until testing completes
June 12, 2023 at 1:12 PM
WASHINGTON — Starting in July, newly built F-35 Joint Strike Fighters outfitted with Tech Refresh 3 (TR-3) hardware will not be accepted by the government until ongoing testing for the system is completed, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) tells Breaking Defense.
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“Starting later this summer, F-35 aircraft coming off the production line with TR-3 hardware will not be accepted (DD250) until relevant combat capability is validated in accordance with our users’ expectations. The JPO and Lockheed Martin will ensure these aircraft are safely and securely stored until DD250 occurs,” he added
An Air Force fighter squadron that first flew in World War II officially returned to duty June 15 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., where the squadron will be the first of three to fly F-35s. Lt. Col. Michael Powell, the commander of the newly-reactivated 95th Fighter Squadron said at his assumption of command ceremony that he plans to have the unit start flying operations in August, take the squadron on a training deployment within a year, and go on a combat deployment within two years.
Though the 95th now officially exists on paper, the squadron—affectionally nicknamed the ‘Boneheads’—is still awaiting its fighter jets and permanent buildings in which to park and maintain them. The F-35s are due to arrive starting in August, while the hangars and other facilities are still being built as Tyndall reinvents itself as an “Installation of the Future” after Hurricane Michael leveled the base in 2018.
It will be largely up to the Boneheads to lay the foundation of F-35 operations at Tyndall before their sister squadrons arrive.
